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pings of the liquor may fall among them, is 

 excellent food for Carp ; two quarts of this 

 is sufficient for thirty, and if they are fed 

 morning and evening it will be better than once 

 a day only. From October to March, thirty 

 or forty Carp in one stew-pond, may be 

 kept well enough without feeding ; but from 

 March to October they must be fed as con- 

 stantly as fowls in a coop, and they will turn 

 to as good an account : and it must be always 

 remembered, that constancy and regularity, 

 in the serving of fish, will conduce very 

 much to their feeding and thriving. 



Besides the food already mentioned, there 

 is one sort which may be called accidental, 

 and that is, when pools or ponds happen to 

 receive the wash of large commons, where 

 flocks of sheep usually feed ; the water being 

 enriched by the dung, will maintain a greater 

 number of Carp than otherwise it could do : 

 for the same reason it is an advantage for 

 cattle to stand in the water in hot weather, 

 and dung in it, because it nourishes the fish 

 very much. 



